> What is so wrong about advertising? It inherently shades into malware. First, all advertising platforms are malware distribution platforms, because the peop

> What is so wrong about advertising? It inherently shades into malware. First, all advertising platforms are malware distribution platforms, because the people who run ad platforms have every incentive to push through all the ads submitted to them and negative incentive to stop the ones which are malware. Nobody in the ad industry wants people to talk about this, but as long as the malware authors are using them to distribute malware, they can't pretend it never happens and they shouldn't be allowed to ignore people who say it does. Second, advertising requires data to be effective, which leads to tracking, which is, itself, a form of malware.